| 释义 |
enswathe, inswathe, v.|ɛnˈsweɪð|
[f. en-1 + swathe n. or v.]
trans. To bind or wrap in a swathe or bandage. Also refl.
1597Shakes. Lover's Compl. 49 Letters sadly pend in blood,..Enswath'd and seald to curious secrecy. 1827De Quincey Last Days Kant Wks. III. 116 Nesting and enswathing himself in the bedclothes. 1830H. N. Coleridge Grk. Poets (1834) 340 Then did they bathe thee in a fresh pure stream..and enswathed thy limbs In a white robe.
b. transf. and fig.
1830Aird in Blackw. Mag. XXVIII. 821 A lucid air enswathed her head. 1842Tennyson St. Sim. Styl. 74 Inswathed sometimes in wandering mist. 1857J. Pulsford Quiet Hours 174 Dense vapours were enswathing the soul. 1873Browning Red Cott. Nt.-Cap 235 Your smile enswathes me in beatitude. |